SBIR/STTR Research Award
EXPERT DESIGN SYSTEM TO ASSESS DRIVE TRAIN RELIABILITY/DURABILITY IN MILITARY TRACKED VEHICLES
Award amount
$49,611Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Universal Technical Systems In
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
EXPERT SYSTEMS SOFTWARE USED IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OF COMMERCIAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS WILL BE APPLIED TO THE ANALYSIS OF MILITARY TRACKED VEHICLES. RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS WILL BE COMPARED WITH DATA AVAILABLE FROM FIELD EXPERIENCE AND WHERE NECESSARY THE EXPERT SYSTEMS WILL BE MODIFIED TO SUIT THE UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MILITARY VEHICLES. THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION WILL ALSO DEVELOP PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS OF AN OPTIMUM DESIGN SO AS TO BE ABLE TO MINIMIZE VOLUME/WEIGHT OF DRIVE TRAINS. LASTLY THE ANALYSIS WILL REFLECT ON HOW THE PERFORMANCE OF DRIVE TRAINS WILL BE IMPACTED BY CHANGES IN THE GEOMETRY OF THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE GEAR CUTTING TOOLS. THIS CAN BE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTOR TO THE FAILURE OF AN OTHERWISE ACCEPTABLE DESIGN.
Technology keywords
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